Radiant wall registers



Nov. 22, 1955 w. KAGAN 2,724,321

RADIANT WALL REGISTERS Filed Sept. 13, 1952 FIG. I.

INVENTOR, w: LIAM KAG ATTORNEY.

United States Patent Ofilice 2,724,321 Patented Nov. 22, 1,955

2,724,321 RADIANT WALL REGISTERS William Kagan, St. Louis, Mo.

Application September 13, 1952, Serial No. 309,425

1 Claim. (Cl. 98--108) This invention relates to room heating systems and devices, and more particularly to a wall register for mounting upon a side wall of a room, upon and over the wall outlet or mouth of a hot air pipe as extended upward from a hot air furnace as located usually below the floor of the room.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a wall register for fitting and mounting upon a wall, closely over the mouth of a hot-air pipe, and formed for receiving and passing into the room, through its upper side, the inflow of hot air from the hot-air pipe, and simultaneously receiving from the floor of the room, through its lower side, the induced counter-flow of relatively cool air, and warming and repassing same back into the room again, intermixed with the hot air from the hot air pipe.

With the above stated objects in view, attention is directed to the accompanying drawing wherein is illustrated a preferred embodiment of my invention, and wherein- Figurel is a vertical section through a lower corner and floor portion of a room as conventionally heated by means of a hot air pipe extended from a furnace, and showing a wall register, constructed in accordance with my invention, mounted closely over the mouth of the hot air pipe for controlling the flow of heated air into the room.

Figure 2 is a perspective view, ona greatly enlarged scale, of a wall register constructed in accordance with this invention, looking towards the inner or wall-contacting side thereof.

Figure 3 is a vertical cross-section taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a frontal elevation, on a still larger scale, of the wall register as shown in the previous views.

Figure 5 is a longitudinal cross section taken on the line 5-5 of Figure 4, a medial portion thereof being broken out.

The Wall register described herein is designed for use upon a wall 5 of a room that is heated by hot air passed into the room through pipes 6 extended from a furnace (not shown) and partially up through the wall 5, and ending in a laterally turned end and mouth portion 6a, opening into the room. As shown in Figure 1 the pipes 6 are passed also underneath the floor 7 of the room, but this is immaterial.

The wall register 8 of this invention is designed for mounting closely upon and over the mouth 6a of the hotair pipe 6 and up against the wall 5. The register itself comprises an open frame 9 formed with a channeled rim 10, the same being dimensioned to nicely fit over and cover the mouth 6a of the pipe 6. The channeled rim 10 includes the outer flanges 10a, the narrower inner flange 10b spaced substantially inward from the outer flanges 10a, and the connecting webs 100 which connect the outer margins of the flanges 10a and 10b for completing the channeled rim 10. The inner edges of the flanges 10a and 10b are all aligned in a common plane for evenly and equally contacting the margins of the mouth of the pipe 6a at the face of the wall 5 when the register is mounted in place thereat and over the mouth of said pipe. The inner flanges 10b are so dimensioned and spaced as to snugly receive the slightly projected lip 6b of the pipe 6, and the register is secured closely in place by means of set screws 11 passed through bored ears 12 anchored on the inner sides of the inner flanges 10b and seated in tapped bores 6c formed in the pipe lip 6b.

The lower flange 10a of the outer flanges or flange unit is longitudinally slotted as at 10d to provide a cool air port or inlet into the register from the floor of the room, and the upper flange and side flanges of the inner flange unit, are similarly slotted as at 10a to provide ports or passage ways through which the cool air from the floor may be drawn in by the suction of the stream of hot air from the hot-air pipe and intermix therewith and pass out therewith out in the room.

In furtherance of such preliminary intermixing process of said hot and cool air streams, before passing into the room as aforesaid, a frontal face-plate 13 is provided for closing the outer or room opening of the register, but leaving at the top and sides thereof slot-like openings 14 between the free margins of the face-plate 13 and the outer faces of the inwardly inclined connecting webs 10c, and through which openings the intermixed heated air may flow from the register into the room. The face plate 13 is formed with a lower perpendicularly inturned flange 13a for seating upon the lower flange 10b of the inner flange unit of the rim 10, and this plate is supported removably in place by means of set screws 15 passed through bores 16 in the two flanges 10b and 13a. These screws may be inserted or removed for mounting or adjusting the face-plate 13, by inserting the screws and a screw driver (not shown) up through the slot 10d of the lower outer flange 10a.

In use and with this improved wall constructed and mounted as described, the hot air passes up through the register and by suction induces a counterflow of relatively cool air from off the floor of the room, upward through the outstanding slot in the lower and outer flange of the channeled rim of the register and into the register, where it is intermixed with the hot air from the furnace and passed therewith back into the room. It is apparent that a register of this construction would thus function effectively and economically in saving fuel and maintaining an even temperature throughout the entire room.

While I have here shown and described a specific embodiment of the invention, it is understood that minor changes may be made in the structures shown, Within the scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

In a heating register, an outer rectangular frame having parallel top and bottom walls and parallel side walls, an inner rectangular frame having top, bottom and side walls in spaced parallel relation to the respective walls of the outer frame, said inner frame being of less width than said outer frame and having its inner edge in the plane of the inner edge of said outer frame for flush engagement of the register with a wall having the end of a hot air pipe protruding horizontally therefrom, a rear portion of said inner frame being snugly engageable over said pipe, said outer frame including a front wall disposed forwardly of the front edge of said inner frame, outwardly diverging plates interconnecting the top and side walls of the inner and outer frames, the top and side edges of said front wall being spaced from said divergent plates to form air outlets, the bottom wall of the outer frame having an opening for admitting room air into the register, the top and side walls of said inner frame having openings therein for passage of the room air into admixture with the heated air emanating from the end of said hot air pipe, and means on said UNITED STATES PATENTS Buettner Oct. 1, 1912 Boles June 3, 1913 Rose Feb. 2, 1932 Kercher Nov. 27, 1934 Geary Apr. 15, 1952 MacCracken Oct. 14, 1952 

